Unanswered questions trigger audit office probe of Region 10 accounts

Senior Superintendent of Works Patrice Johnson (left) and Region Ten Regional Executive Officer (REO) Yolanda Hilliman

The Audit Office will investigate discrepancies flagged in Region 10’s accounts, including overpayments to contractors that have led to a call for the sacking of the region’s Senior Superintendent of Works Patrice Johnson.

PPP/C MP Odinga Lumumba made the call as the Public Accounts Commit-tee (PAC) met for the second time in two weeks to iron out issues relating to the Auditor General’s 2011 report on Region 10’s financial records.

It is unusual for the PAC to consider the same agency in two consecutive sittings, but after three hours of deliberation the previous Monday yielded no progress, APNU MP and PAC Chairman Carl Greenidge suggested that the